Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 95

They all said "Oh!" and held up their forefingers and nodded, but a poor fisherman, who had heard the real nightingale, said, "it sounds prettily enough, and the melodies are all alike; yet there seems something wanting, I cannot exactly tell what."

Who acts: waltzes, poor fisherman, permission, melodies · What happens: say, hold up, nod, hear, sound, be · To what, where: forefingers, real nightingale, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waltzes, poor fisherman, permission, melodies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Oh	punct
5	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 said	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Oh	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Oh	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 held	cc
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 held	compound:prt
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 forefingers	nmod:poss
12	forefingers	forefinger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 held	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 nodded	cc
14	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 held	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fisherman	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fisherman	amod
19	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heard	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 heard	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	aux
23	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 fisherman	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 nightingale	det
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 nightingale	amod
26	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heard	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fisherman	punct
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sounds	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 sounds	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sounds	nsubj
32	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 said	ccomp
33	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	32 sounds	advmod
34	enough	enough	ADV	_	32 sounds	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 alike	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 alike	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 melodies	det
38	melodies	melody	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 alike	nsubj
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 alike	cop
40	all	all	ADV	_	41 alike	advmod
41	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sounds	conj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 seems	punct
43	yet	yet	ADV	_	44 there	advmod
44	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 seems	advmod
45	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
46	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	45 seems	obj
47	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 something	acl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 tell	punct
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 tell	nsubj
50	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 tell	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 tell	advmod
52	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	53 tell	advmod
53	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 seems	conj
54	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 tell	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 tell	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	waltzes = waltz				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oh=Topic
2	hold up	past	waltzes = waltz not said here	waltzes's forefingers			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot forefinger=Theme
3	nod	past	waltzes = waltz not said here				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past · perfect	a poor fisherman	the real nightingale			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nightingale=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	a poor fisherman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sound in a quote	present	permission			enough, prettily property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	is in a quote	present	the melodies			alike, all property	tree rules
8	seem in a quote	present	waltzes = waltz not said here	something	there		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Attribute
9	want in a quote	gerund					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
10	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	waltzes = waltz			exactly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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